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“Translated with notes and commentary by Mark Musa
This volume presents a vigorous poetic translation of the Inferno together with informative notes and commentary intended particularly for students.
"Musa has chosen a wise path through the dark wood of Dante translation by renouncing any rhyme pattern in favor of resilient phrasing and cadence. In so doing, he has scrupulously observed the semantic and iconic levels of Dante's text while providing a fluent, idiomatic rendition in American English that competes with John Cardi's in liveliness while excelling him in accuracy. Judicious notes."
—M L A Scholar's Library
"Musa operates on the principle that a translator's first duty is to render the original text as exactly as possible without compromising the literary quality of the work. My own feeling is that Musa has captured the total feeling of the poem precisely because of his exactness. For each canto the translator has provided an extensive commentary which truly illuminates the text. Taken together, translation and commentary provide the best English language version of the Inferno currently available."
—William John Roscelli, Library Journal
MARK MUSA is Professor of Italian at Indiana University, editor of Essays on Dante, and translator-editor of Dante's La Vita Nuova and other works.“